Sentences with phrase «middle income country women»

The team also concluded the finding about the relationship between NMPR and migration rates may also be gender sensitive since men are more likely to migrate than women and with few exceptions, low and middle income country women are more likely to follow their migrating husband than initiate it themselves.

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Some 62 % of the women were from high - income countries, 34 % from middle income countries and 4 % from low - income countries

The Comment examines what is currently being done, and what should be done nationally and internationally to address nutritional and developmental needs of women and children in low - and middle - income countries.

But the point is if you go to Egypt, you go to South Africa, you go to Mexico, you go to a large number of low - and middle - income countries, countries you think of as very poor like Egypt or countries you think of kind of lower - middle income like South Africa or Mexico, what you find are two thirds or three fourths of the men and women in the countries are overweight and obese.

«In low - and middle - income countries, it is generally impractical to screen for iron status, and most countries have policies for universal iron supplementation for pregnant women.

It is the most common cause of anemia during pregnancy, especially in low and middle income countries, affecting an estimated 32 million pregnant women globally in 2011.

«Given the substantial reduction in maternal mortality and the increase in the number of older women over the last 10 years, health systems in low - and middle - income countries must adjust accordingly, otherwise this trend will continue to increase,» said Dr John Beard, director of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Department of Ageing and Life Course and one of the authors of the study.

People who sell sex face a disproportionate risk and burden of HIV; in low - and middle - income countries, female sex workers have a 13.5 times greater chance of HIV infection than women in the general population.

Fifteen million unwanted pregnancies in 35 low - and middle - income countries could be avoided if women had access to and freedom to use contraception.

What's surprising is that half of the world's countries — including wealthy and growing middle - income nations — still struggle to extend quality care so that it reaches all women.

Until recently, there has been a lack of rigorous empirical evidence on the links between contraceptive access and women's economic empowerment in low - and middle - income countries.